Spaceflight news

— Progress MS-15 encounters KURS docking issue (rocketrundown.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Astra will make another attempt at orbit (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Astra)

— LauncherOne failure update (spacenews.com)

— NASA still has concerns with Starliner (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— twitter.com/amyinorbit: STS-93 wasn’t aborted (youtube.com)

This week in SF history

— July 30 1980: Svetlana Savitskaya selected in the second group of female cosmonauts (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (spacefacts.de) (spacefacts.de)

— Next week in 1989: listen in for an audio clue